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The gnostic world /

The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, designed as a collection of critical studies by experts to both widen and deepen study in Gnostic movements and strands of speculation as a discrete "World" of human socio-spiritual life from the distant past until today. An internat...

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Other Authors: Trompf, G. W. (Editor), Mikkelsen, Gunner B. (Editor), Johnston, Jay (Editor), Milani, Milad (Editor), BeDuhn, Jason (Editor), Nasoraia, Brikha (Brikha H. S.) (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge worlds.
Subjects:
Gnosticism.
Cults.
Religions.
Table of Contents:
  • Gnosticism, gnostics, and gnosis / Dylan M. Burns
  • The gnostic world : a history of scholarship (until 2000) / Garry W. Trompf
  • Gnostics and temporality : from myth to macrohistory / Garry W. Trompf
  • Ancient pre-Christian "gnosticisms" : the state of the questions / Carl B. Smith II
  • The Jewish background to "gnosticism" : a guide for the perplexed / Garry W. Trompf
  • Gnostic motifs in the New Testament / Pheme Perkins
  • On ancient "gnosticism" as a problematic category / Michael A. Williams
  • Gender issues in the study of ancient gnosticism / Majella Franzmann
  • The gnostics in early Christian heresiology / Mark Edwards
  • Genres of gnostic literature and the "classical gnostic" school of thought / John D. Turner
  • Sethian gnostic speculation / John D. Turner
  • Basilides and the Basilidians / Jean-Daniel Dubois
  • Valentinus and the Valentinians / Einar Thomassen
  • Is the Gospel of Thomas gnostic? / David W. Kim
  • The gospel of Judas and the Tchacos Codex / Garry W. Trompf and David W. Kim
  • The Mandaeans : writings, ritual, and art / Brikha H.S. Nasoraia
  • Hermetism and gnosticism / Jean-Pierre Mahé
  • Plotinus and the gnostics / Francis Lacroix and Jean-Marc Narbonne
  • Gnostic elements in ancient magical papyri / Malcolm Choat
  • Mani's life / Iain Gardner
  • The Manichaean path to salvation / Jason David BeDuhn
  • Insight and means in Chinese Manichaean texts / Gunner B. Mikkelsen
  • From "Zurvanism" to Mazdak / Garry W. Trompf and Milad Milani
  • Christian gnosis : from Clement the Alexandrian to John Damascene / Doru Costache
  • Gnostic vicissitudes in late antiquity / Garry W. Trompf
  • Jñāna : gnostic tendencies in early Hinduism and Buddhism / Gregory Bailey
  • The discourse of truth in Chinese Tiantai Buddhism : "gnosis beyond gnosis" / Haiyan Shen, with Brikha H.S. Nasoraia
  • Questions of gnostic influence on early Islam / John C. Reeves
  • An agenda for the study of early Shi'i cosmologies / Mushegh Asatryan
  • Classic Sufism and gnosis / Milad Milani
  • Ismailism and gnosis / Farhad Daftary
  • Druze gnosis and the mystery of time / Adnan Kasamanie
  • Gnostic elements in Yezidism / Victoria Arakelova and Garnik Asatrian
  • Gnosticism and Kabbalah / Michael Schneider
  • Bogomils and Cathars / Zdenko Zlatar
  • Alchemy and gnosis from antiquity to early modern times : "as above so below" / Peter Marshall
  • "Gnosis" as term and concept in the esoteric movements of the modern West : an attempt at periodization / Antoine Faivre
  • Byzantine and modern orthodox gnosis : from the eleventh to the twenty-first century / Doru Costache
  • Pansophia, Christian kabbalism, and the quest for universal knowledge in the early modern West / Garry W. Trompf
  • Freemasonry: gnostic images / Garry W. Trompf
  • British romanticism : gnostic longings / William Christie
  • William Blake, the ancient gnostics, and the birth of modern gnosticism / Peter Otto
  • Gnosis and the "French occult revival" and its offshoots / Tobias Churton
  • The "lost word" key and esoteric eschatology : Blavatsky's gnosis the core of Krishnamurti's teaching / Al Boag
  • The philosophy of Guido von List (1848-1919) : connecting gnosticism to nazism / Jeffrey D. Lavoie
  • Rudolf Steiner : multiple bodies / Wayne Hudson
  • Gnostic sensibility in Gurdjieff's "work" / Constance A. Jones
  • Western Sufism and gnosis / Mark Sedgwick
  • Gnosis : a perennialist perspective / Harry Oldmeadow
  • Carl Jung on gnosticism / Robert A. Segal
  • Elevating the family in the Nation of Islam : discerning the "gnostic factor" / Dennis Walker
  • Inner tradition : recovering the Christianity of the East / Lynn C. Bauman
  • Gnosis in Bābism and gnostic signs in Bābī talismans / Denis M. MacEoin
  • Ayatollah Khomeini's gnoseology and its impact on his political worldview / Emad Bazzi
  • Syncretistic Sufi gnosticism in South and South East Asia / Clinton Bennett
  • Aurobindo and supermind / Peter Heehs
  • Of gnosis in tribal and "primal" cultures / Garry W. Trompf
  • The neo-Gnostic synthesis of Samael Aun Weor / Bernard Doherty
  • Scientology and gnosticism : L. Ron Hubbard's "The factors" (1953) / Donald A. Westbrook and James R. Lewis
  • Gnostic and esoteric filaments in popular culture / Adam Possamai
  • Feminist gnosis and modern gender issues / Jay Johnston
  • Modern psychedelic gnosis / Christopher Partridge
  • Exposing gnosticism / Douglas E. Cowan
  • Gnostic fiction / Carole Cusack
  • Cinema : evil demiurges in Hollywood films at the threshold of the twenty-first century / Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
  • Music and Gnosis / Joscelyn Godwin
  • Aesthetics and visual art / Jay Johnston.